Friday, December 2, 2016

Your safety and paycheck as a truck driver are not even a
blip on the radar of the Trucking Alliance’s

agenda. Not that they try very
hard to hide their corporate greed-driven agenda at all.

It’s time for a smidge of a history lesson. The newly
founded Trucking Alliance showed up on the D.C. scene back in 2010. Formal
papers were filed under another name that half-heartedly tries to make the
group sound less economically driven. “The Alliance for Driver Safety and
Security” is the official name. Yeah, another one of those. Hide behind the
term “safety” and paint pictures of busloads of nuns and puppies as victims.
Blah, blah.

Either the group wasn’t impressed enough with the official
name or knew it was too easy to see through, because the group’s press releases
and such only identified it as the Trucking Alliance for quite a number of
years.

The ATA apparently wasn’t moving things along fast enough so
the Trucking Alliance was able to pluck some rather large members to join its
new association – and surely sturdy up the lobbying cash flow.

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